Comments on: GSA Again Under Fire, Now Over Video Spoofhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/
The latest Politics news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers including Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos and more.Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:31:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1By: Henryhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-23520741
HenryThu, 19 Apr 2012 14:06:59 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-23520741May I ask: Who should resign...Paneta or Obama. The life of a President was in play.
With all the security USA has , this has been brought to Zero.May I ask: Who should resign…Paneta or Obama. The life of a President was in play.

With all the security USA has , this has been brought to Zero.

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Joseph IsaacvsTue, 17 Apr 2012 10:25:09 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-23361901The taxpayers dont care that our government now has to spend millions of dollars to investigate the truth. We do, however, care that the waste is eliminated immediately. The real problem is that this crap is rampant across most government agencies. Our taxpayer dollars are abused by the Republicans as they laugh all thew way to the party - every time. END THIS BS and get rid of all of the old timers in office. They dont care about anyone but themselves.The taxpayers dont care that our government now has to spend millions of dollars to investigate the truth. We do, however, care that the waste is eliminated immediately. The real problem is that this crap is rampant across most government agencies. Our taxpayer dollars are abused by the Republicans as they laugh all thew way to the party – every time. END THIS BS and get rid of all of the old timers in office. They dont care about anyone but themselves.
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MartininsocalTue, 17 Apr 2012 05:00:34 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-23345501This line says it all-
"“When the White House was informed of the inspector general’s findings in this matter, we at the White House quickly acted to determine who was responsible for such a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars,” Carney said. “The president was informed before his trip to South Korea, and he was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors and disregard for taxpayer dollars. "
Really? Or was this in response to one of the trips the Obamas have taken after the election, maybe Spain or Pakistan? Just seems like Big Daddy 'Boma has been rolling 22s while his womens be ridin' high.This line says it all-

““When the White House was informed of the inspector general’s findings in this matter, we at the White House quickly acted to determine who was responsible for such a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars,” Carney said. “The president was informed before his trip to South Korea, and he was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors and disregard for taxpayer dollars. ”

Really? Or was this in response to one of the trips the Obamas have taken after the election, maybe Spain or Pakistan? Just seems like Big Daddy ‘Boma has been rolling 22s while his womens be ridin’ high.

]]>By: dexterhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-23342861
dexterTue, 17 Apr 2012 04:18:49 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-23342861“The president was informed before his trip to South Korea, and he was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors and disregard for taxpayer dollars. He called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable given that these actions were irresponsible and entirely inconsistent with the expectations that he has set as president.”
This fraud of a president needs only look within his own family and his personal friends to see that he was speaking of himself and Mooooooshell who have completely embarrassed the USA and are arrogant enough to waste more than the GSA. I think one famous trip cost in excess of 3 million USA tax dollars. here is the outrage here? Do as I say not as I do? Practiced by executive branch of USA government“The president was informed before his trip to South Korea, and he was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors and disregard for taxpayer dollars. He called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable given that these actions were irresponsible and entirely inconsistent with the expectations that he has set as president.”

This fraud of a president needs only look within his own family and his personal friends to see that he was speaking of himself and Mooooooshell who have completely embarrassed the USA and are arrogant enough to waste more than the GSA. I think one famous trip cost in excess of 3 million USA tax dollars. here is the outrage here? Do as I say not as I do? Practiced by executive branch of USA government

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Qwkinuf BynowTue, 17 Apr 2012 03:16:50 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-23339381The developer (Anthony Marnell) of the M Resort in Las Vegas where the partying took place is one of the largest supporters of Harry Reid's high-speed electric train project between CA and NV? That project will cost the American taxpayer a whopping $63 billion dollars if it goes through. While Marnell maintains a close relationship with the resort, does it not seem extraordinary they would host such a function.The developer (Anthony Marnell) of the M Resort in Las Vegas where the partying took place is one of the largest supporters of Harry Reid’s high-speed electric train project between CA and NV? That project will cost the American taxpayer a whopping $63 billion dollars if it goes through. While Marnell maintains a close relationship with the resort, does it not seem extraordinary they would host such a function.
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Tom UblThu, 12 Apr 2012 06:24:39 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-22943282Want the truth about what is really going on at the GSA?
I was formerly sponsored by U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D) FL, retired, to participate as a founding chair from industry on the GSA’s Industry Government Council (GSA-IGC). The GSA-IGC was an advisory over a $50 billion contracts program known as the Multiple Award Schedules program. I also provided guidance to Senator Coburn’s staff during the Safavian and Emily Murphy hearings. I have provided my expertise and received support from both sides of the aisle over the years.
Obama gave Dan Gordon (OMB) and Martha Johnson (GSA) the green light to implement the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI). The result is 3,000 small and small disadvantaged businesses, to include service disabled veterans, being put under and 30,000 jobs going to the unemployment line, private sector jobs.
Why? GSA in their infinite wisdom formed Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) from with inside the GSA Multiple Award Schedule program. BPA’s are usually formed at the government agency or military activity level per the ADM 4800 Eligibility Order issued by the GSA. Certain classifications were targeted, such as office supplies, class 75. The result was a reduction of 500 companies to 15 by issuing a BPA that supposedly reduces operational overheads. Companies already vetted and issued GSA Schedule contracts.
Companies awarded a FSSI BPA included Office Depot, Office Max and Staples all of whom have been brought up on fraud charges under 31 USC 3729 and SEC charges and were fined and penalized. Lurita Doan was scandalous during the previous administration when she routed contract dollars into GOP PAC’s. Before Doan was Perry who was at the helm during the Safavian and Emily Murphy hearings, which had linkage to the Abramoff scandal. When you go all the way back to 1950 when the program was started, Administrator Larsen was involved in a Cuban silver mine scandal.
Do you think this is just more of the same? No, this time it is not just about grease, it is about the demise and decimation of our small and small disadvantaged businesses. What we have here is Obama cleaning up the trail that leads back to him. Gordon at OMB is gone and now Johnson from GSA is gone. Total plausible deniability and the potential of blowback significantly reduced. However, the committees in their infinite wisdom will focus on public buildings and maybe the “Best Value Evaluation” of bicycle construction or palm reading.
Want some more truth? Ask for the real reason why Senator Coburn ran the committee hearings against Safavian and Murphy. How about some more truth or have you had enough? Why does the DOJ turn down 85% of all fraud cases filed? Why did Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Sponseller meet Ex Parte with Federal judge, T. Rawles Jones in the U.S. Eastern District located in Alexandria, VA, after hours, to intentionally derail a fraud settlement that was in the process of paying millions of dollars back to the U.S. Taxpayers?
The GSA story in the news is a misdirect courtesy of Uncle Sugars mind candy machine. A political volleyball during an election cycle, imagine that! After all what happens in Vegas, well you know… You now have the truth.Want the truth about what is really going on at the GSA?

I was formerly sponsored by U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D) FL, retired, to participate as a founding chair from industry on the GSA’s Industry Government Council (GSA-IGC). The GSA-IGC was an advisory over a $50 billion contracts program known as the Multiple Award Schedules program. I also provided guidance to Senator Coburn’s staff during the Safavian and Emily Murphy hearings. I have provided my expertise and received support from both sides of the aisle over the years.

Obama gave Dan Gordon (OMB) and Martha Johnson (GSA) the green light to implement the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI). The result is 3,000 small and small disadvantaged businesses, to include service disabled veterans, being put under and 30,000 jobs going to the unemployment line, private sector jobs.

Why? GSA in their infinite wisdom formed Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) from with inside the GSA Multiple Award Schedule program. BPA’s are usually formed at the government agency or military activity level per the ADM 4800 Eligibility Order issued by the GSA. Certain classifications were targeted, such as office supplies, class 75. The result was a reduction of 500 companies to 15 by issuing a BPA that supposedly reduces operational overheads. Companies already vetted and issued GSA Schedule contracts.

Companies awarded a FSSI BPA included Office Depot, Office Max and Staples all of whom have been brought up on fraud charges under 31 USC 3729 and SEC charges and were fined and penalized. Lurita Doan was scandalous during the previous administration when she routed contract dollars into GOP PAC’s. Before Doan was Perry who was at the helm during the Safavian and Emily Murphy hearings, which had linkage to the Abramoff scandal. When you go all the way back to 1950 when the program was started, Administrator Larsen was involved in a Cuban silver mine scandal.

Do you think this is just more of the same? No, this time it is not just about grease, it is about the demise and decimation of our small and small disadvantaged businesses. What we have here is Obama cleaning up the trail that leads back to him. Gordon at OMB is gone and now Johnson from GSA is gone. Total plausible deniability and the potential of blowback significantly reduced. However, the committees in their infinite wisdom will focus on public buildings and maybe the “Best Value Evaluation” of bicycle construction or palm reading.

Want some more truth? Ask for the real reason why Senator Coburn ran the committee hearings against Safavian and Murphy. How about some more truth or have you had enough? Why does the DOJ turn down 85% of all fraud cases filed? Why did Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Sponseller meet Ex Parte with Federal judge, T. Rawles Jones in the U.S. Eastern District located in Alexandria, VA, after hours, to intentionally derail a fraud settlement that was in the process of paying millions of dollars back to the U.S. Taxpayers?

The GSA story in the news is a misdirect courtesy of Uncle Sugars mind candy machine. A political volleyball during an election cycle, imagine that! After all what happens in Vegas, well you know… You now have the truth.

]]>By: Chrishttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-22713152
ChrisMon, 09 Apr 2012 20:11:03 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-22713152Didn't Bush make a "funny" video where he looked under chairs searching for Weapons Of Mass Destruction? Got big laughs. Bush sure thought it was hilarious. Of course the soliders who were getting their legs blow off in Iraq didn't think Bush was funny. Go figure. But I guess this video spoof is "worse" then Bush joking about how the war was a big joke, right?Didn’t Bush make a “funny” video where he looked under chairs searching for Weapons Of Mass Destruction? Got big laughs. Bush sure thought it was hilarious. Of course the soliders who were getting their legs blow off in Iraq didn’t think Bush was funny. Go figure. But I guess this video spoof is “worse” then Bush joking about how the war was a big joke, right?
]]>By: Evahttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-22654282
EvaMon, 09 Apr 2012 03:23:41 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-22654282This is not the same video that won the contest. Martha Johnson is a GREAT Administrator....this spending and the intern programs are a joke in all federal and state levels....this kind spending was really bad during Bush in office...Pres Obama has cut alot - had you been and seen in the Bush era...the whistleblowers would loose thier jobs immediately people just turned thier heads and kept their our jobs...Ms. Johnson and Pres is doing the best anyone can its the lower level management thinks they have all the power and authority....do not believe everything you hear in public news.This is not the same video that won the contest. Martha Johnson is a GREAT Administrator….this spending and the intern programs are a joke in all federal and state levels….this kind spending was really bad during Bush in office…Pres Obama has cut alot – had you been and seen in the Bush era…the whistleblowers would loose thier jobs immediately people just turned thier heads and kept their our jobs…Ms. Johnson and Pres is doing the best anyone can its the lower level management thinks they have all the power and authority….do not believe everything you hear in public news.
]]>By: Don Carterhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-22441312
Don CarterFri, 06 Apr 2012 17:19:05 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-22441312Obama - King of waste and fraud, borders on treason with the Russians, trys to intimidate the supreme court, and is by far the worst and most destructive president this country has ever seen. Our economy is in ruins, race relations are at an all time low, and the constitution is all but a thing of the past... all that is left is for him to declare marshal law and himself king.Obama – King of waste and fraud, borders on treason with the Russians, trys to intimidate the supreme court, and is by far the worst and most destructive president this country has ever seen. Our economy is in ruins, race relations are at an all time low, and the constitution is all but a thing of the past… all that is left is for him to declare marshal law and himself king.
]]>By: LUCYSKYhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/gsa-again-under-fire-now-over-video-spoof/#comment-22435812
LUCYSKYFri, 06 Apr 2012 15:56:45 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/?p=566412#comment-22435812That guy plays a mean ukuleleThat guy plays a mean ukulele
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